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| - I'm so glad I discovered this place! But caveat: Bikram Yoga is not for everyone. I got into "the habit" (and yes, it's kind of addicting) at the Bikram Yoga Harlem in NYC and I crave the heat and love to sweat. If breaking into a sweat, makes you all hot and bothered (pun intended) this place is not for you. This is a place for people who can handle the heat (no pun at all, just the simple truth).
Your first time at Bikram Yoga, three things are bound to happen: 1) You will feel like you are going to throw up. it's okay. I've only ever seen one person actually throw up. 2) You will feel like you are having a heart attack. I still haven't seen anyone do this although I feel like maybe I've gotten pretty close a few times (usually when I've been out drinking and carrying on the night before. When this feeling hits, the best thing is just to sit your butt down (head held above your heart) and think happy thoughts of "this too shall pass." Works for me. 3) You might have an existential crisis. Different people will deal with this in different ways. I just tell myself to get over myself. Seems to work.
About this location: I've been a few times and it was the same teacher. She is great, cute East European accent and I like her matter of fact manner of leading the class. No bs, no snobbery, no judgment, just getting you to a melting point. I also like that, unlike the classes I took in NYC, this place isn't crowded (perhaps I shouldn't be writing such things on Yelp!).
My one complaint: Can we please please please have soap in the showers? First time I went, I thought they were temporarily out of soap, but second time, the soap dispensers had been removed!! After sweating heavily for 90 minutes, I would please like to wash "all my areas" with some soap. It doesn't have to be fancy soap, I'll take Softsoap.
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